Opinion

Open source seems to be hitting its stride in many areas of our society. With this growing adoption, it has become much more important to stick to the fundamentals and ensure the use of adequate licensing. In collaborative societies, it is important to build governance that encourages frictionless interactions between participants; open licensing can help […]

The open source community is coming together this week for OSCON in Portland, OR, so a lot of people are talking about recent developments, and the current state of the open source industry. During times like this, it is important to reflect on the successes of open source so we can better understand how to […]

An update to the U.S. children’s Internet Protection Act in 2011 stipulates that schools who receive federal funding from the FCC’s E-rate program must educate students on cyber safety. Charlie Reisinger offers ideas for how this education could be updated to include information related to technology rights, open formats and licenses, ethics and privacy, and […]

The lack of funding to the OpenSSL project significantly contributed to the inability to identify the Heartbleed bug. This bug exposed an ongoing problem in the open source community: businesses are not supporting the open source projects they rely on. A conflict appears to be emerging between supporters of less restrictive open source licensing and […]

If you want to crowd-fund a free software project it is important to have a clear understanding of your audience and how your product benefits users. The process of identify, finding, and reaching out to your audience is one of the biggest challenges of running a successful crowd-funding campaign. More from Hisham Hm

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I’ve spent the last couple of months working an internship for The Linux Foundation, doing research on new developments and adoption trends in the open source industry. If you have spent any amount of time reading about open source over the last year, you have probably heard about Docker; a lot of people are talking […]